Restaurants struggle to re-staff post-pandemic, and while Republican pundits posit that more generous unemployment benefits are to blame, workers are taking a stand and demanding jobs that provide more than just enough pay – or often not enough pay – to make ends meet. #DailyShow #TrevorNoah #LivingWages
Today, the House votes on establishing an independent Commission to investigate the January 6th insurrection
But Republican Leadership has decided to try to sabotage the commission
They are still caving to Trump & his Big Lie
This Senate will vote on the January 6th Commission— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) May 19, 2021
The Republican party convinced the American-right that there are Communists under their beds, and now they’ll allow any action, even the end of our democracy, to fight the entirely imaginary threat. We’ve seen how Republicans face a real threat with Covid.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 19, 2021
Not a blow to Democrats, @ap. A blow to democracy. https://t.co/CZjP3nFJi1
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) May 19, 2021
I saw mention of the Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission previous, but didn’t see mention of the fact that Gov. Stitt got booted from the commission for signing a law that prohibits the teaching of Critical Race Theory in OK. public schools. He threw a hissy.
Going without cable tv service since the pandemic started really underlines the absurdity of conservative pundit pronouncements on what should satisfy restaurant workers. It’s like listening to visiting aliens.
Mitch McConnell will never ever put country over party
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) May 19, 2021
Turtleman never put country or party over Mitch McConnell.
Ever.
As others have noted, there’s been a lot of internet chatter regarding UFO’s over the last couple of days.
As to unidentified aerial phenomenon is….it’s just that, unidentified. It certainly doesn’t mean it’s little green men or the Venusians or the Martians from Mars Attacks. Logically, I’d imagine it’s some kind of extremely classified advanced military project, real “need to know” kinda stuff.
Is there extraterrestrial life out there in the universe? Personally, I’d say that’s a good probability. Are they visiting us to mutilate cows and and give anal probes to hapless hillbillies? Probably not.
That being said, if there is extraterrestrial life, and let’s say for the sake of argument they’ve managed to figure out a way to rapidly traverse the vast gulfs of emptiness out there in the universe, well….we’d sure as hell better hope they’re friendly (or at least largely indifferent to us) because if they can pull off something like that, they could pull off the “time’s up” scene from Independence Day, too.
Yes, I know, while that whole scene is one of the last great setpieces of practical FX before CGI started to really take over, it’s totally illogical. The film posits that they’ve been studying us for decades; so presumably, they’d be able to whip up some nasty fast-acting bioweapon (30 minutes or less to kill) in the mother ship’s lab and pump it into our atmosphere - and aside from the stinky problem of several billion decomposing corpses, our humble homeworld is theirs.
Argentina is setting records for coronavirus infections and deaths, with more than 35,000 daily cases and 743 confirmed deaths. Nationally, officials say intensive care beds remain at 72% occupancy. About 20% of people have received one dose of vaccine. https://t.co/K4vfNjLElu
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 19, 2021
re: #7 Dr Lizardo
so presumably, they’d be able to whip up some nasty fast-acting bioweapon
Maybe they can’t and don’t bother with it considering their superior military force.
re: #9 Belafon
Maybe they can’t and don’t bother with it considering their superior military force.
It was just one of those little nitpicks I’ve long had, but considering their unquestionable military superiority, yeah, maybe it never occurred to them.
Going without cable tv service since the pandemic started really underlines the absurdity of conservative pundit pronouncements on what should satisfy restaurant workers. It’s like listening to visiting aliens.
That’s because the closest most of those pundits get to somebody in the service industry is when they’re bellowing at the front desk clerk about the lack of complimentary towels in their room or threatening not to tip the waitress at the four star restaurant unless their drinks are comped for the underdone steak.
re: #3 Backwoods_Sleuth
Yep.
A blow to democracy. The Republicans aren’t just anti-Democratic party. They’re anti-democracy because they want to be in charge while being disgusting bigots with nothing to appeal to Americans who reject bigotry. They could change to appeal to decent people, but nah.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 19, 2021
House Democrats’ 2020 election autopsy: Bad polling hurt and GOP attacks worked
washingtonpost.com
“The Republican Party is betting the ranch that they can do Trump’s toxicity without Trump’s turnout. And I think that may end up being a terrible mistake,” he said. “There’s that old saying that when the tide goes out, you find out who’s skinny-dipping. And if this tide of Trump turnout goes out in 2022, the Republicans may end up skinny-dipping.” Rep. Sean Maloney
Weird how this is happening while many of us refuse to say his name or give him air. Perhaps that plan isn’t working so well. https://t.co/SPm6ZJRojn
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) May 19, 2021
re: #13 retired cynic
House Democrats’ 2020 election autopsy: Bad polling hurt and GOP attacks worked
washingtonpost.com
Right now, it looks like the GOP has gone all-in on Trump. But what if Trump ends up in the slammer between now and 2024? That cannot be ruled out.
The GOP would be fucked six ways from Sunday.
re: #15 Dr Lizardo
Right now, it looks like the GOP has gone all-in on Trump. But what if Trump ends up in the slammer between now and 2024? That cannot be ruled out.
The GOP would be fucked six ways from Sunday.
Actually, jailed Republicans have run for office before (I don’t know if they won).
re: #7 Dr Lizardo
Since we’ve yet to find a way to travel faster than the speed of light that doesn’t violate either the laws of the universe or depend upon exotic forms of matter and energy that are equally as implausible, traveling across the gulf of space means travel times measured in centuries or longer. So anything that arrives in Earth orbit in some hypothetical future is likely to be robotic in nature and sent out for a more mundane purpose than “Make contact with the highly evolved hairless apes and welcome them to the galactic neighborhood party.”
Odds are they’re likely roaming the cosmos in search of something. Best case scenario is that whatever it’s looking for isn’t here, in which case it takes a snapshot and then buggers off. Worse case scenario is it’s after something that we’re standing atop of, in which case we’re vermin in need of extermination, or it’s actively hostile and we’re bugs to be squashed.
re: #15 Dr Lizardo
Right now, it looks like the GOP has gone all-in on Trump. But what if Trump ends up in the slammer between now and 2024? That cannot be ruled out.
The GOP would be fucked six ways from Sunday.
That is what I’m hoping for. Trump and his lawyers will do everything possible to drag things out and keep him out of the slammer before the GQP can reinstate him as President in 2025, and he can pardon himself.
Meanwhile let’s check in with Xtian Pulpit Pimp-0-Rama today!
Funny that this cotton candy haired clown said the same thing about a certain colored man who was in the White House for 8 years…
re: #17 Targetpractice
Heh, now I’m imagining a classic “gray” ET taking a couple of photos and duly filing a report saying, “Meh, nothing really here, just a bunch of quarrelsome primates” and setting the cruise control for the next suspected habitable planet.
re: #7 Dr Lizardo
If you had a spaceship that could travel as fast as light (that’s Warp 1 to you Star Trek fans), it would take you over five hours to get to Pluto and over four YEARS to get the next closest star system (Alpha Centauri).
This means that for feasible interstellar travel, you’d need some way of travelling even faster than light. I’m not master engineer but I can imagine such a means of propulsion would require considerable amounts of energy to run so it would be a big undertaking for humans or any other sentient species.
Is there life on other planets? Most likely. There are so many stars and planetary systems in the universe that I have to think there are living things (even if only microbial) on some of them. As for other sentient races, that’s anyones guess.
Also, as has been mentioned previously in this discussion, a UFO is simply any unidentified object in the sky. My nephew has a drone with blinking lights on it that some people might think is an alien aircraft floating through the night sky. The fact of the matter is the odds of any UFO actually being an alien spacecraft are significantly lower than my odds of hitting the PowerBall next week.
re: #14 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’ve said this before, including to Bob.
In the Harry Potter series, fear of Voldemort got people saying “He who shouldn’t be named” instead of Voldemort. Turns out, that didn’t stop Voldemort.
Tackling him headlong did. Calling him out by name did. Identifying the problem is the start of solving the problem.
The problem isn’t merely Trump. It’s the entire corrupt and complicit GOP structure that puts party over nation, and absolute power and control by the party above democracy.
One party has completely dissociated from the social compact and seeks to deprive the other party of its rights. It utilizes double standards and ignores its own hypocrisy to further collect power. It uses all the levers of power to collect more power, and they don’t care about anything else.
It’s unreal how horrible the Republican Party is. What is wrong with these people? https://t.co/cLP6IHIcHd
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 19, 2021
re: #23 Charles Johnson
Scalise would recommend a YES vote if it was a bunch of white people who got shot.
The GOP *wants* racist mass shootings because they are terrorists.
Imagine Merrick Garland having to get around Mitch McConnell blocking something https://t.co/tA7983vOkq
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) May 19, 2021
;)
A Brief Chronology of the Jan. 6 commission:
18 May, 1500 EDT: McConnell says he is “undecided” about Jan. 6 commission.
18 May, 2100 EDT: Trump tells Republicans to oppose the Jan. 6 commission.
19 May, 1100 EDT: McConnell announces he is opposed to the Jan. 6 commission.— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) May 19, 2021
It must suck for McConnell and McCarthy’s security details to go to work every day knowing the person they’re protecting doesn’t give a shit if they live or die.
— Sam Youngman (@samyoungman) May 19, 2021
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re: #25 jaunte
The GOP *wants* racist mass shootings because they are terrorists.
A lot of QAPers get off on mass shootings of people of color. They love that.
BTC isn’t a new innovation; it’s been around since 2009, and in all that time nobody seems to have found any good legal use for it. It’s not a convenient medium of exchange; it’s not a stable store of value; it’s definitely not a unit of account 2/
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) May 19, 2021
But I’ve given up predicting imminent demise. There always seem to be a new crop of believers. Maybe just think of it as a cult that can survive indefinitely 4/
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) May 19, 2021
re: #4 Barefoot Grin
I saw mention of the Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission previous, but didn’t see mention of the fact that Gov. Stitt got booted from the commission for signing a law that prohibits the teaching of Critical Race Theory in OK. public schools. He threw a hissy.
Ms. Viola Fletcher — the oldest survivor of the Tulsa race massacre (in the green jacket) — tells Congress she turned 107 two weeks ago and this is her first trip to Washington: “I’m here seeking justice, and I’m asking my country to acknowledge what happened on May 31, 1921.” pic.twitter.com/c3l1nw6Pac
— Geoff Bennett (@GeoffRBennett) May 19, 2021
Mr. Hughes “Uncle Red” Vann Ellis is Ms. Fletcher’s brother. He’s 100 years old and a World War II veteran. He, too, calls for justice and says: “I’m not asking for a handout. I’m asking to be treated like a first-class citizen.” pic.twitter.com/2R0y7l0kTW
— Geoff Bennett (@GeoffRBennett) May 19, 2021
oh lookie
May 19, 2 pm EDT: NHC is monitoring a system over the west-central Atlantic Ocean that has a 40% (medium) chance of becoming a short-lived subtropical cyclone to the northeast of Bermuda this weekend. pic.twitter.com/g1fCPhH5tJ
— National Hurricane Center (@NHC_Atlantic) May 19, 2021
re: #34 Backwoods_Sleuth
oh lookie
Well, we’re only 12 days away from the official start of Atlantic Hurricane season.
GOP doesn’t want to “relitigate” 2020 elections
except when GOP wants to relitigate 2020 elections …. https://t.co/UqllajAcN2— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) May 19, 2021
re: #32 lawhawk
Already 15 17 18 GOPers are likely to be excommunicated by this time next week as not being true believers in the GOP establishment effort to cover up Trump crimes and to silence any investigations into the GOP role in the 1/6 insurrection.
re: #21 Eclectic Cyborg
If you had a spaceship that could travel as fast as light (that’s Warp 1 to you Star Trek fans), it would take you over five hours to get to Pluto and over four YEARS to get the next closest star system (Alpha Centauri).
Pah.
The fleet left Spain on 20 September 1519, sailing west across the Atlantic toward South America.
Following the winter, the fleet resumed their search for a passage to the Pacific in October 1520.
On 6 March 1521, the exhausted fleet made landfall at the island of Guam and were met by native Chamorro people
The Victoria, captained by Juan Sebastián Elcano, finally returned to Spain by 6 September 1522
That’s the problem with the kids of today, they think a few days to get to the moon is long.
re: #36 Backwoods_Sleuth
Ironically, moving forward while looking backward is about as close to a policy position you’ll find among today’s GOP.
re: #36 Backwoods_Sleuth
‘safe streets and strong borders’
So they’ll be running on the racist classics.
re: #32 lawhawk
Vote underway to establish the 1/6 Commission in the House:
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GOPers are mostly voting nay…
8910 thus far are in support of the Commission.That’s bipartisan support.
I will be pleasantly surprised if the commission gets ten GOP Senate votes. I don’t expect that to happen.
We have reached the point that one is either a Democrat, a fascist, or a bystander. If one chooses to be a bystander, you are one of the people allowing evil to prevail by doing nothing. Be a Democrat, even if the only planks you support are democracy and the rule of law.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) May 19, 2021
Biggs doesn’t realize he’s confessing to his own treason #IndictAndyBiggs https://t.co/U7cqHLXT8B
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) May 19, 2021
re: #21 Eclectic Cyborg
If you had a spaceship that could travel as fast as light (that’s Warp 1 to you Star Trek fans), it would take you over five hours to get to Pluto and over four YEARS to get the next closest star system (Alpha Centauri).
This means that for feasible interstellar travel, you’d need some way of travelling even faster than light. I’m not master engineer but I can imagine such a means of propulsion would require considerable amounts of energy to run so it would be a big undertaking for humans or any other sentient species.
Is there life on other planets? Most likely. There are so many stars and planetary systems in the universe that I have to think there are living things (even if only microbial) on some of them. As for other sentient races, that’s anyones guess.
Also, as has been mentioned previously in this discussion, a UFO is simply any unidentified object in the sky. My nephew has a drone with blinking lights on it that some people might think is an alien aircraft floating through the night sky. The fact of the matter is the odds of any UFO actually being an alien spacecraft are significantly lower than my odds of hitting the PowerBall next week.
The thing that always gets me is this: Let’s say it was ETs. OK.
All we’d ever hear from the government (and not just the US, but indeed, any government on the planet) is likely gonna be, “Yes, there’s intelligent extraterrestrial life elsewhere in the cosmos; we’ve been talking with them since [insert year]. The nature of our discussions, and indeed everything else pertaining to the matter, is strictly classified.”
And that’s that.
Massie is a bigger expert than a medical person.
Why are you advocating a more complex antibody testing strategy? Are you advocating more government spending? Or are you just chucking rocks? As a physician I can tell you vaccination is safe. Why are you afraid of vaccination?
— Will Melahn, MD (@wlmelahn) May 19, 2021
Please Congreesman, explain my false premises and arrogance. Again, I feel like the burden is on you. I would be glad to discuss this any time. Let me know when you want to discuss vaccination or COVID. -a concerned physician.
— Will Melahn, MD (@wlmelahn) May 19, 2021
re: #31 No Malarkey!
Bitcoin is best viewed as prosecution futures.
re: #45 Dr Lizardo
All we’d ever hear from the government (and not just the US, but indeed, any government on the planet) is likely gonna be, “Yes, there’s intelligent extraterrestrial life elsewhere in the cosmos; we’ve been talking with them since [insert year]. The nature of our discussions, and indeed everything else pertaining to the matter, is strictly classified.”
What makes you think a government would get to decide?
“I’m really shocked Lucy pulled the football. She assured me over and over that this time the ball would not be removed. I am amazed, shocked, and appalled. I hope that she does not repeat this behavior in the future, now watch as I attempt another kick.” https://t.co/X4sTdrwnEL
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) May 19, 2021
Trump will be the 2024 GQP nominee for President, unless he is dead or in prison. And maybe even then.
2024 National Republican Primary:
Trump 48%
Pence 13%
DeSantis 8%
Trump Jr. 7%
Romney 4%
Haley 4%
Cruz 4%
Tim Scott 2%
Rubio 1%
Noem 1%
Pompeo 1%
Cheney 1%
Hawley 0%
Hogan 0%
Rick Scott 0%
.@MorningConsult/@politico, 982 RV, 5/14-17https://t.co/Vcj0lGMiRD— Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) May 19, 2021
re: #23 Charles Johnson
What do they care? The guns were just fine. Only people were harmed.
re: #48 John Hughes
What makes you think a government would get to decide?
To be sure, such an announcement (and I was being flippant) would unleash a furor the like of which none of us have ever seen. Could any government keep a lid on it? That I don’t know. But I’m fairly sure they’d try their damnedest.
This you? pic.twitter.com/BmWROrkOwb
— Hi Felicia (@Felicia_Luv) May 19, 2021
re: #46 Backwoods_Sleuth
Massie:
“A study of 6.3 million Israelis showed that the estimated protection for those already infected [ WHO SURVIVED ] was 94.8% from reinfection and 96.4% from severe illness, as compared to effectiveness of 92.8% and 94.4%, respectively, from the vaccines.”
The people who died also did not recontract the disease.
re: #15 Dr Lizardo
Right now, it looks like the GOP has gone all-in on Trump. But what if Trump ends up in the slammer between now and 2024? That cannot be ruled out.
The GOP would be fucked six ways from Sunday.
or they would have a figurative martyr who is clearly a political prisoner of the far left fascist state.
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New FBI video from Jan 6th. According to FBI suspects “attempting to rip off an officer’s gas mask, then picking up a tactical baton and hitting officers with it… ” and “punching officers while wearing gloves with metal knuckles.” https://t.co/YoBi86YxGShttps://t.co/cM6gwlJbZ5
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) May 19, 2021
Love this. What a lovely gesture by Mr. Momoa. 💕 pic.twitter.com/PFwCKeo8is
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) May 19, 2021
re: #50 No Malarkey!
Trump will be the 2024 GQP nominee for President, unless he is dead or in prison. And maybe even then.
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We’re also only a little over 100 day into Biden’s term. We’ve got a long way to go until the next campaign.
re: #52 Dr Lizardo
Yes but how would the government be able to make such an announcement? If extraterrestrial life is detected it’s extremely unlikely that it would be the government that would detect it.
re: #59 John Hughes
Yes but how would the government be able to make such an announcement? If extraterrestrial life is detected it’s extremely unlikely that it would be the government that would detect it.
An amateur was the first to discover the nova near Cassiopeia.
re: #33 Backwoods_Sleuth
A must-listen: 107-year-old Viola Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, testified before a House committee.
“We lost everything that day … Greenwood represented the best of what was possible for Black people in America.”pic.twitter.com/obveOMHzgY— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) May 19, 2021
re: #61 Backwoods_Sleuth
And most definitely what lengths white people will go to keep blacks oppressed.
re: #17 Targetpractice
Since we’ve yet to find a way to travel faster than the speed of light that doesn’t violate either the laws of the universe or depend upon exotic forms of matter and energy that are equally as implausible, traveling across the gulf of space means travel times measured in centuries or longer. So anything that arrives in Earth orbit in some hypothetical future is likely to be robotic in nature and sent out for a more mundane purpose than “Make contact with the highly evolved hairless apes and welcome them to the galactic neighborhood party.”
Odds are they’re likely roaming the cosmos in search of something. Best case scenario is that whatever it’s looking for isn’t here, in which case it takes a snapshot and then buggers off. Worse case scenario is it’s after something that we’re standing atop of, in which case we’re vermin in need of extermination, or it’s actively hostile and we’re bugs to be squashed.
We also look at space travel through a human lens. What if an alien species had a lifetime in the thousands of years. A century to travel to a new star may not seam so far out of reach, especially if you can manage relativistic speeds so a century from a static frame may just be a few decades to the traveler.
Do I think we are being visited by aliens no, and robots or radio signals would be the most likely form of first contact, but we should also not put human limitations on an alien lifeform that may be so out of the human spectrum that we may have a hard time even recognizing it as life.
re: #36 Backwoods_Sleuth
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The only appropriate response to such a statement from Thune would be putting the video of McCarthy boasting about how his party’s constant drumbeat of “BENGHAZI!!!” cost Hillary the election.
re: #55 danarchy
or they would have a figurative martyr who is clearly a political prisoner of the far left fascist state.
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The highest-profile Trumper who seems to be the most electable (relatively speaking) is DeSantis.
But don’t count on one of Trump kids…
re: #23 Charles Johnson
Wonder how the two Korean American Republican reps from Southern CA gonna vote?
re: #59 John Hughes
Yes but how would the government be able to make such an announcement? If extraterrestrial life is detected it’s extremely unlikely that it would be the government that would detect it.
Good point. Yeah, it could probably some amateur astronomer.
was the GOP source kevin mccarthy https://t.co/5dEzlbMKxM
— darth™ (@darth) May 19, 2021
Col Ralph Puckett will be awarded the Medal of Honor Friday for his heroic actions 70 years ago during the Korean War. Puckett is @USArmy Ranger legend - he also received a Distinguished Service Cross & 2 Silver Stars for bravery in Vietnam pic.twitter.com/uu4F125pdj
— Mary Walsh (@CBSWalsh) May 19, 2021
re: #71 Backwoods_Sleuth
Excited to hear from Tucker Carlson how this will destroy America. https://t.co/YS0aAiIwpI
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) May 19, 2021
re: #49 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Anyone who had the slightest memory since 1994 knew the motherfathering QAP was going to pull the Lucy shit on this.
re: #21 Eclectic Cyborg
If you had a spaceship that could travel as fast as light (that’s Warp 1 to you Star Trek fans), it would take you over five hours to get to Pluto and over four YEARS to get the next closest star system (Alpha Centauri).
If you are traveling at the speed of light it is only 4 years from Earths perspective, not from the travelers. So if it is a one way trip would it matter? Even if it wasn’t a one way trip and you just didn’t care the that the earth was going to move on while you were traveling. Of course getting to light speed through conventional means would essentially require infinite energy and the added mass your ship took on would rip a whole in the fabric of space. But even some reasonable fraction of light speed that could make noticeable relativistic effects could make the duration for the travelers substantially less than 4 years.
re: #53 Backwoods_Sleuth
This is right-wing authoritarians assuming control of women’s bodies. It has nothing to do with life, coming from people who intentionally spread a deadly disease. You’re exposed for what you are.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 19, 2021
re: #75 Punish Domestic Terrorists
It means one missed period https://t.co/oI0fE1pbat
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) May 19, 2021
re: #58 Belafon
We’re also only a little over 100 day into Biden’s term. We’ve got a long way to go until the next campaign.
You would think so, but in this day and age, the “next campaign” usually begins right after Election Day ( if not earlier)
re: #77 Jay C
You would think so, but in this day and age, the “next campaign” usually begins right after Election Day ( if not earlier)
Biden seems to be focused on governing instead of campaigning, unlike TFG.
re: #57 Backwoods_Sleuth
Damn onion cutting ninjas…
Hey Siri, show me a pathetic gang of irresponsible grinning fuckheads. https://t.co/jvOYZeNXNx pic.twitter.com/QR1OGzrKV4
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 19, 2021
re: #50 No Malarkey!
Trump will be the 2024 GQP nominee for President, unless he is dead or in prison. And maybe even then.
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Two words: three years.
re: #81 Charles Johnson
I will be so glad when Glade releases their Covid-19 room odorizer. “Project yourself by killing off those that won’t do the right thing.”
Letter given today by the House Sgt at Arms to Marge Greene. pic.twitter.com/jUEPkrn6To
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) May 19, 2021
re: #31 No Malarkey!
Bitcoin is a lot like gold bars to me. It has value because a lot of people believe it has value. Which in fairness is the way money works generally. But the fact that Bitcoin and crypto generally isn’t backed by governments and has no practical use/value the way precious metals do, makes it seem like a pretty dumb idea
LA Times Has The Wild Story Of A City Facing Rebellion Over COVID Rules
Happening in Shasta County where assholes are trying to recall 3 County Supervisors who support the masking rules…and a bunch of thugs go after people who wear masks…
re: #84 jaunte
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Greene sees nothing wrong with getting that because she knows that the Xtians who send her $$$ will cover those fines.
After raising employee wages to $15/hour, Klavon’s Ice Cream Parlor in Pittsburgh received “well over 1,000 applications” for job openings.
Co-owner Jacob Hanchar says customer service has improved and he hasn’t “noticed a difference on our bottom line.”https://t.co/9GaJOSi7ef— MSNBC (@MSNBC) May 19, 2021
How about that.
re: #85 KGxvi
Bitcoin is a lot like gold bars to me. It has value because a lot of people believe it has value. Which in fairness is the way money works generally. But the fact that Bitcoin and crypto generally isn’t backed by governments and has no practical use/value the way precious metals do, makes it seem like a pretty dumb idea
Precious metals had no practical use before the electronic age. I would argue that that’s why they made a great medium of exchange.
re: #88 jaunte
*chef’s kiss*
Who knew that paying a good wage will encourage good customer service and actually get people working hard for the job.
Looks like covid19 pandemic reset worker expectations - that they shouldn’t accept shit wages to get harangued and accosted by customers who put them at risk by not masking/social distancing, especially in food service industry.
re: #88 jaunte
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How about that.
Fifteen years ago when I tended bar the owner paid us $10.00 per hour plus tips rather than the $2.00 she could have paid us. It was part of the reason she ran the most popular bar in town, because she had a good staff. We also didn’t steal from her like most bartenders in town did.
re: #91 DesertDenizen
Fifteen years ago when I tended bar the owner paid us $10.00 per hour plus tips rather than the $2.00 she could have paid us. It was part of the reason she ran the most popular bar in town, because she had a good staff. We also didn’t steal from her like most bartenders in town did.
Because you didn’t have to in order to have money to live on. Funny how that works, ain’t it?
re: #89 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
Precious metals had no practical use before the electronic age. I would argue that that’s why they made a great medium of exchange.
Exactly. They became valuable because they were useless. If you could waste resources on useless decoration you must have been wealthy.
re: #36 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Can’t “relitigate” something that never has been once yet
GOP doesn’t want to “relitigate” 2020 elections
except when GOP wants to relitigate 2020 elections …. https://t.co/UqllajAcN2— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) May 19, 2021
re: #92 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Because you didn’t have to in order to have money to live on. Funny how that works, ain’t it?
Bingo! But she was the only owner in town to understand that.
re: #88 jaunte
If someone wants to be the best table cleaner at McDonald’s, then they should be paid accordingly.
re: #88 jaunte
If he was really smart, he would raise it to $21/hr.
Can they deny entry for shitty graphic design
— NoLongerPurelyCivilHat (@Popehat) May 19, 2021
— Bishop Ydstie-Smirnov🍦 (@xrelaht) May 19, 2021
re: #88 jaunte
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How about that.
We keep getting told that raising pay will only hurt or kill businesses because those businesses will have to raise prices and thus lose customers, yet again and again businesses that raise employee pay end up not only surviving but thriving.
You’d think after awhile that somebody might notice a pattern there…
re: #98 gocart mozart
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Reminds me of the Rodney Dangerfield joke, “Hey! I get no respect at all. People don’t want to have anything to do with me. Like the time I was walking down the street and saw a sign in a bar window saying “Topless and Bottomless”. I went in. Nobody was there…”
re: #76 jaunte
Best to have a preventative D&C every month, just in case.
/Not serious, I’ve heard how much it sucks. (pun accidental)
If Hanging his brother is wrong, Greg Pence doesn’t wanna be right https://t.co/DVwyBBzhWO
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) May 19, 2021
re: #98 gocart mozart
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Someone in the replies to Abbott’s executive order talked about how places can require pants but for some reason couldn’t require a mask, and people were arguing that pants served a function so it was different.
re: #103 Belafon
Someone in the replies to Abbott’s executive order talked about how places can require pants but for some reason couldn’t require a mask, and people were arguing that pants served a function so it was different.
Yeah…all those Texans with tiny ding dongs…
re: #76 jaunte
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The first argument will be that its not a heart beat because it’s not a heart
British researchers analyzed scans of the hearts of healthy fetuses in the womb and found that the heart has four clearly defined chambers in the eighth week of pregnancy, but does not have fully organized muscle tissue until the 20th week.
This from 2013
re: #85 KGxvi
Bitcoin is a lot like gold bars to me. It has value because a lot of people believe it has value. Which in fairness is the way money works generally. But the fact that Bitcoin and crypto generally isn’t backed by governments and has no practical use/value the way precious metals do, makes it seem like a pretty dumb idea
It’s a very dumb idea. Libertarian nerds decided to bypass government money using technology. This only works until governments ban and crack down on it.
You can only bypass the policies of your government with technology on a temporary basis. A lot of mining is in China, and the value is propped up by Chinese citizens, so when China bans cryptocurrencies that they don’t control, the party is over. The Party will have ended the party.
re: #102 No Malarkey!
Wow.
First, TIL. Mike Pence’s brother Greg is in the House of Representatives.
Second, there is someone even more weak and craven than Ted Cruz. I mean, sucking up to the man who called your wife ugly and said your father was involved in the JFK assasination is already pretty low on the scale of weak and craven, but voting against a commission to investigate the set of events that included people chanting how they were going to murder your brother is a whole new level of weakness and cravenness.
Former guy not pleased with being target of criminal probe. I thought he liked attention. https://t.co/o7h1r1sQHU
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) May 19, 2021
re: #107 aatharuv
Wow.
First, TIL. Mike Pence’s brother Greg is in the House of Representatives.Second, There is someone even more weak and craven than Ted Cruz. I mean, sucking up to the man who called your wife ugly and said your father was involved in the JFK assasination is already pretty low on the scale of weak and craven, but voting against a commission to investigate the set of events that included people chanting how they were going to murder your brother is a whole new level of weakness and cravenness.
He’s a Pence. What did you expect?
re: #99 Targetpractice
We keep getting told that raising pay will only hurt or kill businesses because those businesses will have to raise prices and thus lose customers, yet again and again businesses that raise employee pay end up not only surviving but thriving.
You’d think after awhile that somebody might notice a pattern there…
They have
They will never brin g themselves to change their narrative
It would be admitting they were wrong
re: #88 jaunte
One more thing: This also destroys the “We should treat small businesses differently” argument.
This is Hazel. She knows turtlenecks can be a controversial fashion choice… but not when you look this h*ckin good in them. 14/10 pic.twitter.com/vVNxlLMUeY
— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) May 19, 2021
According to a new book, in conversations with advisers and donors during the Trump administration and the 2020 election, former President Barack Obama called Donald Trump a “madman,” a “racist, sexist pig,” “that fucking lunatic” and a “corrupt motherfucker,” The Guardian reports.
“Obama’s feelings are well-known, but have rarely been reported in such blunt detail.”
re: #86 🌹UOJB!
LA Times Has The Wild Story Of A City Facing Rebellion Over COVID Rules
Happening in Shasta County where assholes are trying to recall 3 County Supervisors who support the masking rules…and a bunch of thugs go after people who wear masks…
re: #86 🌹UOJB!
LA Times Has The Wild Story Of A City Facing Rebellion Over COVID Rules
Happening in Shasta County where assholes are trying to recall 3 County Supervisors who support the masking rules…and a bunch of thugs go after people who wear masks…
Ah, Shasta County, where the loathsome Patrick Jones, former Redding councilman/mayor, gunshop owner and former transit board member (who was 100% anti-transit) is now, of course one of the county supervisors who’s an anti-mask moron.
Back in January—Newly elected Shasta County Supervisor Patrick Jones appeared at his first meeting Tuesday in the supervisors’ chambers in Redding. The meeting was scheduled to take place online but Jones and Supervisor Les Baugh opened the chambers and allowed members of the public inside.
Associated Press: “Firms hired to run a partisan audit of the 2020 election for Senate Republicans in Arizona said Tuesday that data was not destroyed, reversing earlier allegations that election officials in the state’s most populated county eliminated evidence.”“The claim of deleted databases was amplified by former President Donald Trump and his supporters, who believe conspiracy theories about election irregularities
Think they’ll be good with this explanation?
Nope. Not a chance
A bipartisan group of senators is expected to introduce legislation Wednesday to lift significant financial burdens off the ailing U.S. Postal Service while tightening accountability requirements for mail delivery, a major stride toward reform for the agency that has tussled with its balance sheet and reputation for the better part of a year
Its WaPo so I can’t read the details
re: #116 Dangerman
Its WaPo so I can’t read the details
A bill that would allow the USPS to get out from under the financial lead weight that the GQP put upon it in order to drive it into bankruptcy as an excuse to privatize the whole operation.
Yeah, I don’t see it reaching Biden anytime soon.
re: #115 Dangerman
Think they’ll be good with this explanation?
Nope. Not a chance
It follows the typical right-wing pattern: Make a false claim that engenders outrage, wait for the outrage to set in, hastily (and quietly) revoke the claim to avoid legal liability, and enjoy the sound of sheeple making your alternate reality for you.
re: #115 Dangerman
Think they’ll be good with this explanation?
Nope. Not a chance
Nah, the Dems obviously just hid the stuff and then had to reveal it in the face of The People’s anger.
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re: #117 Targetpractice
A bill that would allow the USPS to get out from under the financial lead weight that the GQP put upon it in order to drive it into bankruptcy as an excuse to privatize the whole operation.
Yeah, I don’t see it reaching Biden anytime soon.
it’ll be there with lightning speed. The House is passing a similar version. It’ll be on his desk in short order.
Andrew Giuliani is only 35 but he told Fox News he’s been in government service for ‘5 decades’
Could he be even more of an asshole than his Dad is?
Could be!
Andrew Giuliani says he has spent five decades in government even though he’s 35 years old. pic.twitter.com/fVSIhHT7DC
— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) May 19, 2021
Why Dad vanished, part # 342,751
— 70s Dinner Party (@70s_party) May 19, 2021
re: #122 🌹UOJB!
Andrew Giuliani is only 35 but he told Fox News he’s been in government service for ‘5 decades’
Could he be even more of an asshole than his Dad is?
Could be!
He is counting from when Rudy entered politics when he was a toddler, which is ridiculous.
re: #124 No Malarkey!
He is counting from when Rudy entered politics when he was a toddler, which is ridiculous.
Have we ruled out Rudy having transferred his consciousness to his son, killing the son?
re: #84 jaunte
Just filed @SpeakerPelosi’s letter warning me to follow her mask rule. pic.twitter.com/KwKlbAV0Ml
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) May 19, 2021
re: #126 Backwoods_Sleuth
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It’s not from Nancy, so he didn’t likely look at it. And maybe didn’t notice the fine of $2500 per offense after the first. He’s not, I think, so wealthy that he can afford to keep up this stunt for long.
re: #126 Backwoods_Sleuth
You should resign. You can think about running for office again when you’re an adult. 12-year-olds are not up for leadership.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 19, 2021
re: #66 teleskiguy
Mental health break.
Watch this neon green-suited, long-haired, absolute bro drop into the right side of Corbet’s Couloir at Jackson Hole ski area.
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Do his giant brass balls roll down behind him or do they ride along?
re: #106 Punish Domestic Terrorists
It’s a very dumb idea. Libertarian nerds decided to bypass government money using technology. This only works until governments ban and crack down on it.
You can only bypass the policies of your government with technology on a temporary basis. A lot of mining is in China, and the value is propped up by Chinese citizens, so when China bans cryptocurrencies that they don’t control, the party is over. The Party will have ended the party.
the glibertarians make it really hard for me to defend a lot of libertarianism.
I swear, one of these days, I am actually going to write a book…
re: #127 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
It’s not from Nancy, so he didn’t likely look at it. And maybe didn’t notice the fine of $2500 per offense after the first. He’s not, I think, so wealthy that he can afford to keep up this stunt for long.
He’ll start the fundraising emails and make the rubes pay for it.
re: #130 KGxvi
the glibertarians make it really hard for me to defend a lot of libertarianism.
I swear, one of these days, I am actually going to write a book…
I have a friend who’s the social media director for a county-level Libertarian party org.
By now, he knows Libertarians are crazy, but he was raised by Conservatives, which involved some brainwashing, so supporting the party that has a chance of stopping the far-right isn’t available to him.
I dunno Marsha I kinda like going to the grocery store without worrying that I might be killing my grandma https://t.co/T3REUOPV04
— Jason Isbell (@JasonIsbell) May 19, 2021
re: #124 No Malarkey!
He is counting from when Rudy entered politics when he was a toddler, which is ridiculous.
Still isn’t five decades, only four.
re: #133 BlueSpotinAL
Not really. You’re never going to recover from the Trump disaster, because all you can do is lie about Democrats, when you should be putting an end to all the lying in your party, and working toward being a group that can offer solutions to actual problems.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 19, 2021
re: #134 Backwoods_Sleuth
Still isn’t five decades, only four.
I think what he’s going with is 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s, 20s. It’s a pretty chickenshit way to read it, but it he has technically been alive for parts of five different decades.
Here’s the story on today’s first public meeting of the Biden administration’s Supreme Court Reform Commission. Via @katieleebarlow. https://t.co/D1VKpSv7Dq
— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) May 19, 2021
re: #137 DesertDenizen
I think what he’s going with is 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s, 20s. It’s a pretty chickenshit way to read it, but it he has technically been alive for parts of five different decades.
ah, republican math…
re: #139 Backwoods_Sleuth
It only hit me because someone on my Sirius radio was pointing out the Springsteen has now charted in six different decades, 70s through now.
Sadly, unless the Capitol Police start wearing red hats and swear allegiance to Trump, the Republicans won’t care. https://t.co/12a7IMZdJF
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) May 19, 2021
re: #141 Backwoods_Sleuth
NEWS: MEMBERS of the U.S. Capitol Police have issued a statement to members of Congress expressing “profound disappointment” with McConnell and McCarthy’s positions on the Jan. 6 commission, citing the “trauma” that officers endured that day. pic.twitter.com/CRweVhIAnD
— Olivia Beavers (@Olivia_Beavers) May 19, 2021
re: #137 DesertDenizen
I think what he’s going with is 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s, 20s. It’s a pretty chickenshit way to read it, but it he has technically been alive for parts of five different decades.
that’s it:
When discussing his experience, 35-year-old Andrew Giuliani said that he has spent “32 years in politics and in government.”
“So I may look young, but I certainly feel a lot older.” pic.twitter.com/acTtee6fsI— Mediaite (@Mediaite) May 19, 2021
“I’m the only announced candidate that actually has spent parts of five decades in politics.”
Andrew Giuliani, while discussing his bid to run for NY governor, claimed he has been involved in “politics and in government” since he was just three years old.https://t.co/tnkkUMxAKg— Mediaite (@Mediaite) May 19, 2021
re: #137 DesertDenizen
I think what he’s going with is 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s, 20s. It’s a pretty chickenshit way to read it, but it he has technically been alive for parts of five different decades.
He actually describes it pretty clearly in the clip, but it’s 85 types of stupid to argue that he was “in politics” when he was 3. In the spot light? Sure, ok. But in politics? It’s just a stupid, stupid claim. I just wish Chris Farley was still around to see this.
The evidence for “critical race theory replaces economy as top issue” is quite literally that Republican candidates are focusing on it. pic.twitter.com/DzYhh5g9vg
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) May 19, 2021
re: #143 Backwoods_Sleuth
“So I may look young, but I certainly feel a lot older.”
Already in his dotage, in fact.
…donald https://t.co/MESMbJVOcF
— darth™ (@darth) May 19, 2021
re: #135 Punish Domestic Terrorists
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Wonder if she or any other repub wants to enumerate all those ‘crisis after crisis’ he has fumbled
re: #124 No Malarkey!
Andrew G’s Five Decades in Politics
1. 1985-89: The toddler years
2. 1990-99: The adolescent years
3. 2000-09: The “My daddy was mayor of America” years
4. 2017-19: The “I’m Trump’s caddy/dad is committing crimes for him” years.
5. 2020-21: Fuckit, I’ll run for governor— Edwin (@EdMix13) May 19, 2021
re: #148 Eventual Carrion
Wonder if she or any other repub wants to enumerate all those ‘crisis after crisis’ he has fumbled
Well, obviously, all of the ones they manufactured in order to pretend that Biden botched them all. Isn’t circular logic fun?
re: #130 KGxvi
the glibertarians make it really hard for me to defend a lot of libertarianism.
I swear, one of these days, I am actually going to write a book…
Especially since cryptocurrencies are so often transparent attempts to transfer wealth to *coin early adopters for no justifiable reason.
re: #148 Eventual Carrion
Wonder if she or any other repub wants to enumerate all those ‘crisis after crisis’ he has fumbled
The Border
Israel
Prosecuting white people
Blowing up the debt
Taking care of poor people
So his excuse is that the mob was bad at insurrections, because they couldn’t find Mike Pence and murder him? https://t.co/djEZ4yDee7
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 19, 2021
Wow Tim Ryan has had enough pic.twitter.com/xAvjLikr6H
— Acyn (@Acyn) May 19, 2021
LoL. Wut?
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re: #139 Backwoods_Sleuth
ah, republican math…
As good as their rounding of the vote totals from the election. They round tRump’s numbers to 75 million (he had 74,222,552), but they round Biden’s numbers down to 81 million (he had 81,283,786). So they round 222,552 up while rounding 283,786 down. Fucking disingenuous pukes.
I thought those UFOs looked familiar.
Hm… https://t.co/laj32BSW51 pic.twitter.com/3fGHIwCgNA
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) May 19, 2021
re: #144 Mike Lamb
He actually describes it pretty clearly in the clip, but it’s 85 types of stupid to argue that he was “in politics” when he was 3. In the spot light? Sure, ok. But in politics? It’s just a stupid, stupid claim. I just wish Chris Farley was still around to see this.
and as someone pointed out in one of the threads, he could also say he was “in politics” over the course of 2 centuries—equally stupid, but hey, he’s Rudy’s son…
re: #159 BeachDem
and as someone pointed out in one of the threads, he could also say he was “in politics” over the course of 2 centuries—equally stupid, but hey, he’s Rudy’s son…
In his defense, he was held back and had to repeat two decades. https://t.co/gK5OCFb39q
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) May 19, 2021
There’s a lot of impulse to express outrage over this. Don’t. Outrage is for chumps. Ask them why they’re siding with the insurrectionists.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) May 19, 2021
USCP does NOT take positions on legislation. pic.twitter.com/LSu38jbIqd
— U.S. Capitol Police (@CapitolPolice) May 19, 2021
“It is inconceivable that some of the Members we protect, would downplay the events of January 6th. Member safety was dependent upon the heroic actions of the USCP.” https://t.co/fQwyIYlo6D
— John Scott-Railton (@jsrailton) May 19, 2021
If Trump really thought it was ‘Antifa’ that attacked the Capitol he would have had called on every branch of the military to drop down on that dome in a heartbeat, let’s be real. He knew it was MAGA and he wanted as much damage as possible. GOP is covering his crimes once again.
— NoelCaslerComedy (@CaslerNoel) May 19, 2021
re: #163 Backwoods_Sleuth
Then again, sometimes it’s impossible not to take a position on legislation.
Please help our federal law enforcement partners get justice. https://t.co/t45sWy8HVY
— U.S. Capitol Police (@CapitolPolice) May 19, 2021
re: #164 Backwoods_Sleuth
It was fascists rather than anti-fascists. We should be clear about that, rather than using the propaganda slogan of the man who tried to end our democracy.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 19, 2021
Rep. John Yarmuth voted for the resolution condemning the Atlanta shooting on March 16 and reaffirming commitment “to combating hate, bigotry, and violence against the Asian-American and Pacific Islander community.” All 5 GOP members of Kentucky’s delegation voted against it.
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) May 19, 2021
Imagine what could happen in six months if the Dems got a solid majority in both chambers.
re: #168 Eclectic Cyborg
Imagine what could happen in six months if the Dems got a solid majority in both chambers.
I’m having trouble imagining that, I’m afraid.
Hard worker pic.twitter.com/G2cW670KGi
— Mike Gordon (@mike_gordon) May 17, 2021
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re: #167 Backwoods_Sleuth
Republicans really are the scum of the earth. To be a Republican one must be actively evil or willfully blind to the evil of other Republicans to a degree that would shame the ‘good Germans’ of Occupied Germany. There are no other options.
133 days ago terrorists attacked our nation’s Capitol and attempted to overthrow our government. We need a 9/11-style commission to study the events of that deadly day. pic.twitter.com/UJ7spMXrku
— Bill Pascrell, Jr. (@BillPascrell) May 19, 2021
re: #170 teleskiguy
Is that a giant military cat, or a tiny tiny computer?
“day two: no UFOs sighted” pic.twitter.com/cTJrKwczP0
— darth™ (@darth) May 19, 2021
A judge has granted our motion to intervene in a lawsuit against Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman for harassing and intimidating Black communities from voting by mail in the 2020 elections.
We will work to hold these individuals accountable.— NY AG James (@NewYorkStateAG) May 19, 2021
re: #171 nines09
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We need an independent commission, and a vote against it is a vote for a coverup.
“Choose ye this day whom you will serve.”
Our democracy, or the Big Lie. pic.twitter.com/q8QIbUOA2m— Rep. Val Demings (@RepValDemings) May 19, 2021
re: #165 jaunte
Then again, sometimes it’s impossible not to take a position on legislation.
on actual legislation:
USCP Statement on Emergency Security Supplemental: https://t.co/p9Hl11LBlt pic.twitter.com/UQggtQwkoG
— U.S. Capitol Police (@CapitolPolice) May 14, 2021
re: #74 danarchy
If you are traveling at the speed of light it is only 4 years from Earths perspective, not from the travelers.
If the travelers are moving at the speed of light (which, by current understanding is impossible) then, from the point of view of someone on earth, the trip takes 4 years. From the point of view of the crew it takes zero years.
re: #182 John Hughes
If the travelers are moving at the speed of light (which, by current understanding is impossible) then, from the point of view of someone on earth, the trip takes 4 years. From the point of view of the crew it takes zero years.
As much as I hate to give him credit for anything, Card actually did a very good job explaining of this phenomena in his Ender series.
re: #178 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
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Lit me up.
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Thanks all. Any musician who ever felt a hack saw blade saw through a digit or the clean crisp sharpened edge cut a finger not too deep ….
Understands when it just no big thang.
re: #183 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
As much as I hate to give him credit for anything, Card actually did a very good job explaining of this phenomena in his Ender series.
Agreed on both counts.
re: #183 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
As much as I hate to give him credit for anything, Card actually did a very good job explaining of this phenomena in his Ender series.
Agree 100% that Card’s views are deplorable. As a far lesser point, Card took liberties with the science for dramatic effect, by assuming faster than light communication, but no faster than light travel. That was a fine story telling device, but it is not consistent with known physics (both FTL communication and FTL travel are ruled out by known physics).
32 House Rs voting yes on the Jan. 6 commission so far, with 23 left to vote.
So many primary opponents for Trump to recruit for opposing him.— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) May 19, 2021
I don’t think he has the skills for it.
storm chasin in West Texas pic.twitter.com/sFjNdHGFYP
— laura rowe (@lauralouu30) May 17, 2021
re: #191 EPR-radar
Agree 100% that Card’s views are deplorable. As a far lesser point, Card took liberties with the science for dramatic effect, by assuming faster than light communication, but no faster than light travel. That was a fine story telling device, but it is not consistent with known physics (both FTL communication and FTL travel are ruled out by known physics).
The Alcubierre Drive wants to remind you that there is still a discussion going on about that.
Thank you all.
Lit my ass up.
Been while since I could look into a finger that deep.
Figured stitches or have it just break open again and…
My world is blades sharp.
Forget or get off….
My reminder.
Respect.
Thanks
re: #191 EPR-radar
Agree 100% that Card’s views are deplorable. As a far lesser point, Card took liberties with the science for dramatic effect, by assuming faster than light communication, but no faster than light travel. That was a fine story telling device, but it is not consistent with known physics (both FTL communication and FTL travel are ruled out by known physics).
right. because getting information some place is the same thing, for all intents and purposes, as getting something physical to that place. And also, there’s the whole “Jovians rigging the goddamned pennant again” element that we don’t want to have to deal with.
re: #113 Dangerman
President Obama is way too polite.
re: #191 EPR-radar
That was a fine story telling device, but it is not consistent with known physics (both FTL communication and FTL travel are ruled out by known physics).
Quantum entanglement begs to differ.
BREAKING: The House of Representatives has voted to establish an independent commission to investigate the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.
175 Republicans voted “no.”
Among those opposed were the top three House Republicans: @GOPLeader, @SteveScalise, and @EliseStefanik.— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) May 19, 2021
At lunch over the weekend I noticed the restaurant added a living wage surcharge to the receipt. Does not bother me in the least, and I still tipped 30%. pic.twitter.com/ptdDwfy3Ji
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) May 19, 2021
re: #200 darthstar
I would check and see if the company is actually giving either of them to their employees. Companies raising wages aren’t seeing increases in overall costs.
“…How do we know the surcharge is anti-worker?
Consumers don’t like surprising add-ons; when you go somewhere expecting to pay menu price and then end up needing to pay more, you’re usually annoyed. Business owners who put a surcharge on their menus know that and want you to tie your annoyance to legislation that makes them compensate their employees more fairly.”
34justice.com
Trying to imagine what one of my clients might say if I added a ‘living wage surcharge’ to their bill.
Campus Cancel Culture Freakouts Obscure the Power of University Boards
This op-ed argues that university boards are really in control of many core functions on college and university campuses. teenvogue.com
Teen Vogue does a good looking into the right wing trope of calling college culture leftist, and finds that it is no such thing.
The corporate capitalist regime that controls American university boards today has manufactured the current crisis of higher education by inflating tuition to compensate for state funding cuts while passing on the debt to students; hiring contingent rather than tenure-line staff to pay teachers less while withholding the security of academic freedom; and appointing administrators who are ultimately accountable to the regime.
“How long have you been running a business?
Did you know that you have to pay your employees?”
In case you missed it: A suspect currently on the FBI’s Capitol attack wanted list posed with a number of Republican politicians at a Giuliani event last week. https://t.co/TW6T8rXLmR pic.twitter.com/laTMtPC8AV
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) May 19, 2021
👇 One man’s silly cat post is another man’s direct threat to public safety. pic.twitter.com/aH4b0CJjwq
— Paul Bronks (@SlenderSherbet) May 19, 2021
re: #134 Backwoods_Sleuth
Still isn’t five decades, only four.
Hey, it’s from the same people who are convinced that near sundown on Friday to sometime before sunrise on Sunday means Jesus rose from the dead after three days, not +/- 36 hours.
Take me straight to the hospital… https://t.co/GH8ZwqoFAo
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) May 19, 2021
This is not the own that they think it is… pic.twitter.com/24j5pLmn2e
— Jeff Mayers (@TimeLordJeff) May 19, 2021
me getting removed from the pizza buffet pic.twitter.com/0Hth31avdN
— prison mike (@bodybycheezits) May 19, 2021
hmmm
Even by the standards of what is happening in Britain right now, the details are pretty amazing. This is Home Office minister Priti Patel at Rupert Murdoch’s wedding. How are they even friends?? pic.twitter.com/7BdozKkN3H
— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) May 19, 2021
What possible motive does Rupert Murdoch’s friend Priti Patel have to block an independent report into police corruption that’s been *eight years* in the making…that might implicate Rupert Murdoch?https://t.co/wYsxyS8MDp
— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) May 19, 2021
That’s fine Marjorie Traitor Greene. Let’s just skip straight to the indictments. You first. https://t.co/J3WixtxKqE
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) May 19, 2021
re: #208 Backwoods_Sleuth
Why have we been doomed to live in the most stupid of times?
re: #216 plansbandc
Why have we been doomed to live in the most stupid of times?
just lucky like that, I guess
Yesterday, Justice Amy Coney Barrett participated in a ruling that benefited Shell Oil in its legal battle over climate change.
Barrett’s dad worked for Shell for 29 years, during the same time the company is accused of covering up what it knew https://t.co/iFtSRsANUE— Emily Atkin (@emorwee) May 18, 2021
Biden saying “bathing suit” instead of “swimsuit” is another example of him being a zillion years old.
— Mr. Nick Beaudrot (3 years of Summer School) (@nbeaudrot) May 18, 2021
It is. Now do us all a favor and delete your account.https://t.co/VjlPkATCmp
— chris evans (@chris_notcapn) May 19, 2021
re: #198 sagehen
Quantum entanglement begs to differ.
Actually, it doesn’t because that specific kind of spooky action at a distance can’t be used for FTL communication or travel.
re: #219 Backwoods_Sleuth
Well, you know, on second thought, guy’s a republican.
Be glad he didn’t insist on “birthday suit.”
I mean, you KNOW how they are. https://t.co/0F0aUnL1NX— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) May 19, 2021
I’ve used them both—bathing suit and swimsuit—my entire life. This is not a thing.
Get in folks, we’re going to win the competition for the 21st century. pic.twitter.com/B8YWFKlzeo
— President Biden (@POTUS) May 18, 2021
re: #219 Backwoods_Sleuth
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The only place I ever hear swimsuit is in beauty pageant lingo.
The ONLY proof you need that Antifa had nothing to do with January 6th is the Republicans’ refusal to form a commission to investigate it.
— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) May 19, 2021
Well, my rep, Tom Rice, is still out of fucks—he voted for impeachment and he voted for the commission (and he will undoubtedly be primaried by some of the worst of the worst—hey, my county went for fucking Lin Wood for GOP state chair)
re: #227 BeachDem
Well, my rep, Tom Rice, is still out of fucks—he voted for impeachment and he voted for the commission (and he will undoubtedly be primaried by some of the worst of the worst—hey, my county went for fucking Lin Wood for GOP state chair)
Sounds like you’ve got one of the last principled Republicans in existence. It might be worthwhile to send him messages of support.
re: #228 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Sounds like you’ve got one of the last principled Republicans in existence. It might be worthwhile to send him messages of support.
It’s pretty surprising, actually, because until the impeachment vote, he went along with the rest of the Republican morons from this state on just about every vote since he first got elected. My guess is he won’t run again.
For anyone who wants the list of Repubs who voted Yea:
REPUBLICAN
Bacon R-NE, Yea
Bentz R-OR, Yea
Bice R-OK, Yea
Cheney R-WY, Yea
Curtis R-UT, Yea
Davis R-IL, Yea
Fitzpatrick R-PA, Yea
Fortenberry R-NE, Yea
Garbarino R-NY, Yea
Gimenez R-FL, Yea
Gonzales R-TX, Yea
Gonzalez R-OH, Yea
Guest R-MS, Yea
Beutler R-WA, Yea
Hill R-AR, Yea
Hollingsworth R-IN, Yea
Jacobs R-NY, Yea
Johnson R-SD, Yea
Joyce R-OH, Yea
Katko R-NY, Yea
Kinzinger R-IL, Yea
McKinley R-WV, Yea
Meijer R-MI, Yea
Miller-Meeks R-IA, Yea
Moore R-UT, Yea
Newhouse R-WA, Yea
Reed R-NY, Yea
Rice R-SC, Yea
Salazar R-FL, Yea
Simpson R-ID, Yea
Smith R-NJ, Yea
Taylor R-TX, Yea
Upton R-MI, Yea
Valadao R-CA, Yea
Womack R-AR, Yea
I finished my whittling project, a unicorn magic wand for my grand-daughter.
It’s made from a cedar branch. The unicorn horn is integral, so it wont break off. The mane is an inset piece of padauk. The eyes are ebony dowels, inserted about half an inch deep, and the highlights in the eyes are made with silver wire. The lettering on the handle is a birthday message, a wish that her magic always be benevolent, kind and fair, and a bunch of spells.
re: #229 BeachDem
None of Arizona’s nutters I see. Not that I’m surprised.
re: #230 jaunte
I finished my whittling project, a unicorn magic wand for my grand-daughter.
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It’s made from a cedar branch. The unicorn horn is integral, so it wont break off. The mane is an inset piece of padauk. The eyes are ebony dowels, inserted about half an inch deep, and the highlights in the eyes are made with silver wire. The lettering on the handle is a birthday message, a wish that her magic always be benevolent, kind and fair, and a bunch of spells.
I would like to register several updings with the management. So cool!
re: #230 jaunte
I finished my whittling project, a unicorn magic wand for my grand-daughter.
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It’s made from a cedar branch. The unicorn horn is integral, so it wont break off. The mane is an inset piece of padauk. The eyes are ebony dowels, inserted about half an inch deep, and the highlights in the eyes are made with silver wire. The lettering on the handle is a birthday message, a wish that her magic always be benevolent, kind and fair, and a bunch of spells.
I am impressed. I’m sure your granddaughter will love it.
re: #232 DesertDenizen
It was a lot of fun to work on.
re: #230 jaunte
Wow. That is one beauty of a magic wand.
re: #230 jaunte
I finished my whittling project, a unicorn magic wand for my grand-daughter.
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It’s made from a cedar branch. The unicorn horn is integral, so it wont break off. The mane is an inset piece of padauk. The eyes are ebony dowels, inserted about half an inch deep, and the highlights in the eyes are made with silver wire. The lettering on the handle is a birthday message, a wish that her magic always be benevolent, kind and fair, and a bunch of spells.
What an awesome gift.
re: #238 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
The other grandchildren have weighed in with their requests. Next up is an owl.
re: #239 jaunte
An owl? Hmm. It sounds like something from Harry Potter.
re: #241 PhillyPretzel
I need a little more backstory on the owl, so I know which way to take it.
The economy shed more than 9 million jobs in 2020. 1.3 million were added during Biden’s first 100 days in office. https://t.co/Ue2ndqUje1
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 20, 2021
re: #242 jaunte
Honestly all I know about owls from that series was they formed some sort of mail delivery.
Apologies to B-Sharp but the opening was there.
Nickel something…Back…that’s it. Nickel Back.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) May 20, 2021
re: #245 PhillyPretzel
I think what he likes is that they’re a symbol of wisdom, but I need to check.
CNN just reported that NY AG has opened a criminal tax investigation into Weisselberg.
If you put a bunch of well-fed baby eels in a tank, they will eventually turn into cannibals, with the strong eels devouring the weak eels. The Trump family may be similar. https://t.co/ZwF5xdnfWi
— Fernando Espuelas (@EspuelasVox) May 20, 2021
re: #230 jaunte
I finished my whittling project, a unicorn magic wand for my grand-daughter.
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It’s made from a cedar branch. The unicorn horn is integral, so it wont break off. The mane is an inset piece of padauk. The eyes are ebony dowels, inserted about half an inch deep, and the highlights in the eyes are made with silver wire. The lettering on the handle is a birthday message, a wish that her magic always be benevolent, kind and fair, and a bunch of spells.
Bravo!!! Exquisite.
None of the 5 Republican in Kentucky’s House delegation voted for the bipartisan January 6th Commission. The only one I thought might was @RepGuthrie who I distinctly remember going to the House floor after attack to call for this type of investigation:
👇🏿https://t.co/AlM87rBim3— Eva McKend (@evamckend) May 20, 2021
re: #239 jaunte
The other grandchildren have weighed in with their requests. Next up is an owl.
Cool. Can’t wait to see the pics
re: #252 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
The pressure’s on now.
AOC’s ability to get ineffectually angry guys to beclown themselves remains impressive. pic.twitter.com/li8moVm6Je
— NoLongerPurelyCivilHat (@Popehat) May 19, 2021
Because if there’s one thing we know works out great for states, it’s having Donald Trump open a casino there https://t.co/TpNioftHqK
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) May 19, 2021
Something something definition of insanity.
re: #248 retired cynic
CNN just reported that NY AG has opened a criminal tax investigation into Weisselberg.
Well, maybe he hasn’t been as cooperative as we thought….but his ex-daughter in law has. Fuck him too.
re: #230 jaunte
That is awesome! You’re a cool grandpa.
From the “debate” on the 1/6 Commission:
Look, nobody said they were SMART violent treasonous assholes. https://t.co/QVWlQtMWyA
— NoLongerPurelyCivilHat (@Popehat) May 19, 2021
You know that short promo that starts at the beginning of films in some theaters:
“Let’s all go to the lobby, let’s all go to the lobby….”
And for some odd reason when the announcement was made that SCOTUS would take up a case that could end up in overturning Roe v. Wade all I could hear in my mind was…
“Let’s all get an abortion, let’s all get an abortion…”
Like it’s some frivolous choice women make.
Ok, I laughed a bit https://t.co/Owlk6NObiJ
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) May 20, 2021
re: #21 Eclectic Cyborg
Taking years, centuries, or even longer isn’t a problem if any one or more of these are true.
Generation ships which have solved the sociological problems they have presented in our sci-fi.
NAFAL (nearly as fast as light) ship with extreme time dilation. (and possibly not giving a damn about going back home after)
Extremely long-lived to potentially immortal species.
Automated or AI Probes, possibly self-replicating.
Species advanced beyond technological singularity (a term I hate but use here for lack of a better term) to merge with AI or upload consciousness in sufficiently advanced computers.
“Loopholes” in GR are easier to manipulate than we think at this point allowing stable traversable wormholes to be created and/or warp drives like the Alcubierre drive possible.
All that said I’m reasonably sure *every* UFO sighting so far in human history has not been aliens.
re: #194 William Lewis
The Alcubierre Drive wants to remind you that there is still a discussion going on about that.
The Alcubierre Drive is a warp drive. You never move faster than light. You exist in a sub light bubble as space moves around you faster than light. Also exotic matter and negative energy …
re: #230 jaunte
I finished my whittling project, a unicorn magic wand for my grand-daughter.
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It’s made from a cedar branch. The unicorn horn is integral, so it wont break off. The mane is an inset piece of padauk. The eyes are ebony dowels, inserted about half an inch deep, and the highlights in the eyes are made with silver wire. The lettering on the handle is a birthday message, a wish that her magic always be benevolent, kind and fair, and a bunch of spells.
Wow. That is stone gorgeous, and I bet you have a very happy granddaughter. She’ll probably be showing that off to HER kids a few decades from now.
re: #264 CleverToad
I hope so! She has said that if the house burns down, that’s the thing she’ll save.
re: #81 Charles Johnson
They’re dumb as hell, and they’re not going to take it anymore.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 20, 2021
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